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Obama’s Green-Car Plan Hits Limits

Bloomberg
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President Barack Obama’s administration is buying fewer hybrid and electric cars and more vehicles that can consume both ethanol and gasoline to meet 2015 environmental goals, favoring older technology over new.

Obama gave speeches across the U.S. last year touting his twin goals of buying only alternative-fuel vehicles for the U.S. fleet by 2015 and getting 1 million electric vehicles on the country’s roads by that year.

Is anyone really surprised by this result? Anyone with any common sense knew that all EVs and most hybrids were not ready for prime time and "official" Federal government pronouncements or policy moves will not make the current EVs and hybrid generation or the generation that will be available in the near future (20 to 30 years away) ready for prime time.

"Rather than leading the way, the government has discovered that the high cost of hybrids and electric cars and their lack of availability often mean it makes more sense to buy cars with fuel-efficient conventional engines." So for the President, it's do as I say, not as I do....That doesn't work here in America....and it doesn't jive with his share the wealth/burden philosophy...

The Liar-in-chief stikes again. Now he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. What's the matter? don't the federal employes that drive government cars like those little electric puddle jumpers? He will never see 1 million electric vehicles on the raod by the end of presidencey--January 2013.

Just more cowabunga! Who knows what OBozzo's administration is going to do next? He sure doesn't know!

Obama is constantly blaming anything & everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect ? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

Lotsa talk but hybrids and electric cars are not going places like Obama figured on. Too many problems. And too costly. Only makes sense for people to buy vehicles that can get better gas mileage - the old tried and true engines and technology.